Quotes About Limitation

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

un mundo en el que cualquier otra alternativa resultaba inimaginable.

Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past. What a relief.

I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

I don't know, I can't quite get it. Don't try. It's just words. Just words? Just words! We love them so much, you and me. But in the end, they fail us. Because there are truths beyond words.

Yet we promise not to look around, either, for we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species.